This is how the lungs of a coronavirus patient are: worse than those of a smoker | the Chronicle

An emergency surgeon in the United States compared a series of x-rays and said that “the lungs of people who have beaten the coronavirus appear to be more damaged on x-rays than those of smokers“.

“I don’t know who needs to hear this, but the lungs after Covid-19 seem worse than any kind of terrible smoker’s lung we’ve ever seen. And they collapse. And they coagulate. And the breathlessness persists., published on January 4 Brittany Bankhead-Kendall on your account Twitter.

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In a comment to CBS published on Wednesday, Bankhead-Kendall argued that severe damage is seen in 100% of people with symptoms of coronavirus and between 70 and 80% of those asymptomaticsy said he had had x-rays of thousands of patients with the virus since the start of the pandemic.

“There are still people who say, ‘I’m fine, I have no problem,’ and you do a chest x-ray and they definitely have a bad x-ray.said the doctor.

In addition, he shared with the channel pictures of healthy lungs, those of a smoker and those of a Covid-19 survivor, showing the severity of the long-term effects of the virus.

The next day, Bankhead-Kendall announced that she had received the vaccine: “Today, I feel relief. Relief because I will not suffer from this virus. Relief because I can treat patients without fear. Relief because I can plan to see my children grow up. Relief because when I have a sore throat or cough, it’s not the beginning of my end. “.